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DATE : 10/2/1963
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APPR: LANG MAY BE MAKING -COUP. PLANS AS REPORTEDBUT THE ‘DEGREE, To. WHIeH. OTHER t.N=
DIVIDUALS NAMED MAY BE INVOLVED CANNOT BE’ JUDGED, "GENERAL TY PROBABLY HAS SUPPORTED THE .
GENERALS DEMANDS ON PRESIDENT DIEM, . THE MEETING OF DIEM WITH THE TROOP COMMANDERS POS=
SiIBLY TOOK PLACE AS REPORTED. .LANG PROBABLY HOLDS. THE VIEWS CITED.

1. SUMMARY, ON 39 SEPTEMBER 1963 HUYNH VAN LANG, PROFESSOR
OF ECONOMICS AT SAIGON UNIVERSITY SAID THAT: L LEUTENANT GENERAL |
LE VAN TYS) CHIEE, JOINT GENERAL STAFF (ues), HAD ) REINFORCED THE

GENERALS: DEMANDSFFOR GOVERNMENTAL REFORI
GENERALS WERE CONVINCED “THAT THE, cour
“REGARDLESS OF WHETHER DIEM WNITIATES RE
TRAN THIEN KHIEM, CHIEF OF STAFF, GS, WASCOBSEERNED ABOUT
VIET CONG MILITARY ACTIVITY NEAR SAIGON, HE AND ‘OTHER GENERALS
WANTED TO BE ASSURED OF UNITED STATES SUPPORT .IN THE EVENT THAT

A COUP SUCCEEDED, COLONEL DO MAU, CHIEF, MILITARY SECURITY

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SERVICE,HAS ATTEMPTED TO INFLUENCE VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE (VNAF)
"OFFICERS TO ATTACK GIA LONG PALACE, | THE COUP PLOTTERS WERE

CONCERNED ABOUT PRESIDENT DIEM'S MEETINGS WITH ARMY OFFICERS

DURING WHICH THE LATTER RECEIVED: GIFTS OF MONEY. LANG'S PLAN FOR

REORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING THE COUP.HAS BEEN

ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE BY THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE AND HE HAS

STARTED SELECTING MEMBERS OF A SHADOW GOVERNMENT, LANG HAS

ADVISED POSTPONING THE COUP UNTIL HIS GOVERNMENTAL PLANNING

‘HAS BEEN COMPLETED,

2. LANG MADE THE. FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT MILITARY

DEVELOPMENTS:

“A, LIEUTENANT GENERAL LE VAN TY, RECENTLY RETURNED FROM

THE UNITED STATES, MET WITH OTHER GENERALS ON 26 OR 27

SEPTEMBER AND THEN SAW PRESIDENT DIEM TO URGE GOVERNMENTAL REFORMS,

INCLUDING THE APPOINTMENT OF GENERALS TO THE MINISTRIES

OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND INTERIOR,

B. GENERAL KHIEM AND OTHER GENERALS WERE BECOMING
CONVINCED THAT REFORMS ALONE WOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT AND. THAT
“THE ENTIRE NGO FAMILY HAD TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

C. _KHIEM WAS CONCERNED ABOUT INCREASED VIET CONG (vc)
MILITARY ACTIVITY NEAR SAIGON AND THE COUP PLOTTERS: FEARED
POSSIBLE VC EXPLOITATION OF AN ATTEMPTED COUP DIETAT, °

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D. KHIEM AND OTHER GENERALS D|D NOT WISH TO ATTEMPT ‘A
COUP, UNTIL 1T- WAS DETERMINED THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD
SUPPORT THEM IF THEIR COUP SUCCEEDED. -

E. COLONEL DO’ MAU, WORKING THROUGH LIEUTENANT COLONELS
NGUYEN CAO KY, 1ST TRANSPORT GROUP COMMANDER AND DO KHAC MAI,
VNAF CHIEF OF STAFF, HAS INDEPENDENTLY ATTEMPTED TO INFLUENCE
VNAF OFFICERS TO MOUNT A COUP AND ATTACK GiA LONG PALACE,

LANG'S GROUP BELIEVED THAT MAU WAS’ TOO INDISCREET BUT PLANNED
TO CAPITALIZE ON THE SITUATION IF THE VNAF DID BEGIN:A COUP,
(FIELD COMMENT,” 1F\wis,een'REPORTED THAT MAI AND MAU WERE
DISAPPOINTED THAT NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN AGAINST THE REGIME. )

F. GENERAL KHIEM CLAIMED THAT: HELICOPTER UNITS WERE
INCLUDED IN THE LANG COUP GROUP,

G. PRESIDENT DIEM RECENTLY SUMMONED MILITARY OFFICERS,

WITH THE RANK OF CAPTAIN AND ABOVE, WHO COMMANDED TROOP UNITS IW
AND NEAR SAIGON. AND GAVE THEM SUMS OF “MONEY RANGING FROM

39,006 TO 199,908 PIASTERS, THE MONEY OSTENSIBLY WAS SEIZED

FROM THE VC. COLONEL NGUYEN VAN THIEN, VIETNAMESE ARMOR COMMANDER,

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RECEIVED 100, 088 PIASTERS, WHICH “APPARENTLY HAS CAUSED HIM TO
RENEW HIS ALLEGIANCE TO DIEM, SOME JUNIOR OFFICERS COUNTED ON.
TO SUPPORT THE COUP HAD BEEN IMPRESSED BY THEIR MEETING WITH THE
PRESIDENT, BUT OTHERS WERE NOT AND HAVE JOINED 1 THE COUP GROUP. °

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| THAT NHU HAD GIVEN LARGE SUMS’ OF’ MONEY TO MILITARY OFF ICRS. )
| H. DIEM HAS GIVEN LARGE SUMS OF MONEY TO COLONEL HUYNH
4 HUU HIEN, VNAF COMMANDER. ACCORIONG TO GENERAL KHIEM, DIEM HAS
| "GIVEN HIEN ORDERS TO USE THE VNAF FOR COYNTERCOUP ACTION AND
FOR EVACUATION OF THE PRESIDENT. IF NECESSARY,
J, DIEM OFFERED LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHAM NGOC THAO,
_ INSPECTOR OF STRATEGIC HAMLETS, THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR
GENERAL OF NATIONAL, POL ICE WHILE NHU OFFERED HIM COMMAND OF THE
SPECIAL FORCES. THAO, HOWEVER, HAS NOT WAVERED wn HIS ‘SUPPORT -
OF THE COUP, ce - |
3.0 “LANG SAID ‘THAT HE HAS URGED DELAY IN “MOUNTING THE
COUP, UNTIL HE HAS COMPLETED HIS PLANS FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT
SO. THAT THERE WOULD BE NO vo1D- FOR THE’VC TO EXPLOIT. “HE:
SAID. THAT THE REVOLUT | ONARY COMM! TTEE HAS ACCEPTED IN
PRINCIPLE HIS IDEAS CONCERNING ORGANIZATION OF A. NEW GOVERNMENT.
(FIELD COMMENT? IN LANG'S PROPOSED GOVERNMENT THE REVOLUT | ONARY
‘COMMITTEE WOULD REPLACE PRESIDENT DIEM, THE TERM MINISTER WOULD
BE: USED INSTEAD OF COORDINATING SECRETARY OF STATE AND
“MINISTER OF SECURITY AND MINISTER OF’ POLITICAL AFFAIRS WOULD
_ BE ADDED TO THE GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE, WHICH WOULD NOT
DIFFER DRASTICALLY FROM THE PRESENT ONE. ) LANG HAS SELECTED

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THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF A SHADOW CABINETS
A, GENERAL KHIEM, MINISTER OF SECURITY
B, VO VAN-HIEN, CURRENTLY A SAIGON LAWYER, MINISTER OF
JUSTICE, | |
C: LANG, EITHER MINISTER OF ECONOMY OR DEPUTY MINISTER
OF ECONOMY FOR FINANCE, | .
D. NGUYEN TON HOAN, PROMIENT OPPOSITION LEADER IN:
EXILE, MINISTER OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS, I

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E, NGUYEN. THAI, - OPPOSITION LEADER IN THE UNITED STATES,
EITHER MINISTER OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS ‘OR DEPUTY MINISTER OF
POLITICAL AFFAIRS. FOR CIVIC. ACTION, . oe

F. MAJOR GENERAL TRAN VAN MINH, DEPOLY. MINISTER OF “ee

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SECURITY FOR DEFENSE. . ;
Ge NGUYEN HUY NGHIA, GOVERNMENT OF - VIETNAM (evn

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AMBASSADOR To TOKYO, DEPUTY Mi N ! STER OF SECUR I TY FOR 1 NTER 10R,
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H. NGUYEN ‘HUU CHAU, FORMER M | NI STER OF 4 NT ER 1oR UNDER

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: DIEM CURRENTLY. IN EXILE, DEPUTY MINISTER OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS

FOR FORE |GN AFFAIRS. | |
Le AU TRUONG THANH, "PROFESSIONAL ECONOM: ST, DEPUTY .

MINISTER OF ECONOMY FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. | _ .
J, LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHAM NGOC THAO, DIRECTOR ‘GENERAL :

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LANG “HAS CONTACTED ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCEPT NGHIA, CHAU AND HOA,
“HE HAS SENT A CATHOL IC PRIEST TO PARIS TO CONTACT CHAU, AND

WAS PLANNING TO. CONTACT THE OTHERS EVENTUALLY.

oo 4, LANG: SAID THAT HE WAS STRONGLY, OPPOSED TO: THE

_ INCLUSION OF TRAN KIM TUYEN, RECENTLY ASSIGNED AS GVN CONSUL
GENERAL To CAIRO, IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT. NEVERTHELESS, THAO.
HAS A ASSURED TUYEN'S SUPPORTERS. IN. SAIGON THAT TUYEN WILL BE A
MEMBER OF THE REVOLUT | ONARY COMM) TTEE IN ORDER TO ASSURE

THEIR: SUPPORT FOR THE COUP,

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